On Apr 21, 2011, at 11:51 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Jeff Boyce wrote:
>> Greetings -
>>
>> This may be a little off-topic here so if someone wants to point me
>> to a
>> more appropriate mailing list I would appreciate it.
> <snip>
>> The issue that I would like to be able to resolve when the new
>> server is
>> installed, is that currently if a user wants to change the password
>> on
>> their Windows workstation, I have to manually update that new
>> password
> on the
>> Linux user account, and also manually change the Samba user account.
>> Manually updating the password in three different locations is a
>> minor
>> headache that I would like to correct. I have been researching and
> <snip>
> You *could* do it with openldap, with the WinDoze boxen authenticating
> through that. Now, I'll warn you that though it may have improved, a
> few
> years ago, openldap was a nightmare to configure, the documentation
> dreadull where it wasn't almost useless, and googling involved a
> *lot* of
> searching.
Yes, agreed OpenLDAP is my suggestion as well.
As for Windows clients, you can either do;
Samba/LDAP tie in so that your LDAP domain also function as a PDC.
Or you can use pGina which is a Windows LDAP plugin that allows your
Windows clients to auth direct to LDAP w/o the need to join a PDC first.
I prefer pGina but its not for every one.
- aurf
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